Part 5 (1/2)
Kedar Nath Babu walked bydarkness I delivered Father's letter, which ests that I take a position in the Calcutta office of his railroad company How pleasant to look forward to at least one of the pensions that Swami Pranabananda enjoys! But it is impossible; I cannot leave Benares Alas, two bodies are not yet for me!”
{FN3-1} CHOTO MAHASAYA is the term by which a number of Indian saints addressed me It translates ”little sir”
{FN3-2} In its oay, physical science is affirh mental science For exaiven on Nov
26, 1934 at the Royal University of Roy, pressed certain points of a subject's body and the subject responded with minute descriptions of other persons and objects on the opposite side of a wall Dr Calligaris told the other professors that if certain areas on the skin are agitated, the subject is given super-sensorial i him to see objects that he could not otherwise perceive To enable his subject to discern things on the other side of a wall, Professor Calligaris pressed on a spot to the right of the thorax for fifteen aris said that if other spots of the body were agitated, the subjects could see objects at any distance, regardless of whether they had ever before seen those objects”
{FN3-3} God in His aspect of Creator; from Sanskrit root BRIH, to expand When Emerson's poem BRAHMA appeared in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY in 1857, most the readers were bewildered Emerson chuckled ”Tell them,” he said, ”to say 'Jehovah' instead of 'Brahma' and they will not feel any perplexity”
{FN3-4} In deep meditation, the first experience of Spirit is on the altar of the spine, and then in the brain The torrential bliss is overwheli learns to control its outward manifestations
{FN3-5} After his retirement, Pranabananda wrote one of the most profound coali and Hindi
{FN3-6} See chapter 27
CHAPTER: 4
MY INTERRUPTED FLIGHT TOWARD THE HIMALAYAS
”Leave your classrooe Stop in the lane where no one in my house can see you”
These were h school friend who planned to acco day for our flight Precautions were necessary, as Ananta exercised a vigilant eye He was determined to foil the plans of escape which he suspected were uppermost in my mind The amulet, like a spiritual yeast, was silently at ithin me
Amidst the Himalayan snows, I hoped to find the master whose face often appeared tonow in Calcutta, where Father had been per the patriarchal Indian custoht his bride to live in our hoed in daily meditations and preparedarrived with inauspicious rain Hearing the wheels of Aether a blanket, a pair of sandals, Lahiri Mahasaya's picture, a copy of the BHAGAVAD GITA, a string of prayer beads, and two loincloths
This bundle I threw from my third-storyI ran down the steps and passedfish at the door
”What is the exciteave hi my bundle, I joined Amar with conspiratorial caution We drove to Chadni Chowk, aour tiffinthat my clever brother could easily play the part of a detective, we thought to outwit hiarb
On the way to the station, we stopped for my cousin, Jotin Ghosh, whouru in the Himalayas He donned the new suit we had in readiness
Well-caed, we hoped! A deep elation possessed our hearts
”All we need now are canvas shoes” I ledrubber-soled footwear ”Articles of leather, gotten only through the slaughter of animals, must be absent on this holy trip” I halted on the street to remove the leather cover frolish-ht tickets to Burdhere we planned to transfer for Hardwar in the Himalayan foothills As soon as the train, like ourselves, was in flight, I gave utterance to a few of ine!” I ejaculated ”We shall be initiated by the masters and experience the trance of cosnetism that wild aniers will be noour caresses!”
This re, both ht an enthusiastic s it through theat the sca landscape
”Let thesilence with this suggestion ”Each of us should buy his own ticket at Burdwan Thus no one at the station will surly agreed At dusk our train stopped at Burdwan